London (Global Adventures): Studying the rising acid levels in the Arctic Ocean that potentially threatens marine life is the main focus of the Catlin Arctic Survey 2010. British polar explorer Pen Hadow, Director of the mission, said it will begin in early March and take scientists to an Ice Base 750 miles from the North [...]

Arlington (Global Adventures): Scientists funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and NOAA have recorded the deepest erupting volcano yet discovered. High-definition video of the undersea eruption of the West Mata Volcano (links can be found here: link1 and link2) is just “spectacular.”
“For the first time we have been able to examine, up close, the [...]

Vietnam (Global Adventures): A massive cave discovered earlier this year by a joint British-Vietnamese caving team in the heart of the jungle is believed to be the world’s largest cave passage. The rocky passage is 150metres long and measures a towering 200metres in height. Called Hang Son Doong, or Mountain River Cave, the system is [...]

Bermuda (Global Adventures): The Green Bay Cave in Bermuda the longest known cave on the island and the target of a NOAA expedition running until September 30, 2009. Deep water marine caves represent one of the Earth’s last largely unexplored frontiers of undiscovered fauna.
More than 150 limestone caves are known from the island of Bermuda, [...]

Arctic (Global Adventures): After discovering a “… unusual underwater mountain on the Arctic sea floor,” the race is on again for Canada and the United States to renew claims that their boundaries extend beyond their existing 200-nautical-mile economic zones, granted under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Many countries including Russia [...]

Canada (Global Adventures): The Arctic continental shelf is the target of a joint US-Canadian expedition.
The Arctic survey is part of the multi-year, multi-agency effort undertaken by the U.S. Extended Continental Shelf Project, led by the Department of State, with vice co-chairs from the Department of the Interior and NOAA.
Under international law, every coastal nation is [...]

For some reason, remembering the sunset on Lake Lucerne in Switzerland after an exhausting day of diving brings British Author Oscar Wilde to mind. “We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it [...]

With 7,000 years of history, the Maltese Islands are steeped in culture and heritage. The Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Romans and the Byzantines, all left their traces on the Islands. Until 1530 Malta was an extension of Sicily, the Normans, the Aragonese and other conquerors who ruled over Sicily also governed the Maltese Islands.
The Knights [...]